Research Commons accepts a variety of scholarly material including, but not limited to, refereed articles, conference papers, book chapters, reports, code and creative materials including NTROs.
The repository can accept a wide variety of media types and files. The descriptive repository record for such items can be enhanced with copies of a programme, photographs, video etc. As with articles, what you can deposit will depend on your contractual arrangements with third parties such as publishers.
Sometimes called a ‘postprint’, the accepted manuscript version of a paper incorporates the revisions made from the peer review process (if any), but has not had the changes to formatting and layout that will morph it into the final published article. Authors should deposit the accepted manuscript version as in most cases this is the one publishers allow us to make openly available.
No, the final published version is all that is needed in this case.
The Library undertakes to carefully check publisher policies and apply an appropriate level of access. The University will assume responsibility for any errors. If a mistake has been made, the Library will receive a take-down notice from the publisher, which it will immediately comply with.
The reputational benefits to the University are stronger when your research is clearly associated with a University service. Also, precisely because there are so many other services it is much simpler to deposit items in one place (where they will be curated indefinitely by the Library) and link to them.
External services can change their policies on the availability of deposited works or they can be acquired (for example, Mendeley was taken over by Elsevier in 2012). Research Commons, as part of the University, is not subject to these occurrences and so can assure your work of long-term availability.
When you send outputs to Research Commons the copyright status of your work will be checked by trained professionals so you can be sure you are correctly complying with publishers’ policies. Further, Research Commons can deliver usage statistics to assess the impact of your work and is configured for visibility in search engines such as Google Scholar.
It is not anticipated that these agreements will change publishing practices in terms of the proportion of Australian and New Zealand publications that come from each institution. It is expected that academics will continue to choose to publish in the venues that best suit their research, informed by disciplinary norms and local requirements.
Yes, it is valuable to the University to have an institutional copy and, like journals, external locations may cease to exist or change their policies.
Yes, you're welcome to deposit a copy in Research Commons even if there's a copy in another repository.
Yes. Any article which is published as open access (OA) within these Read & Publish agreements will remain open access in perpetuity.
If you're having trouble generating a PDF, contact the Library at researchcommons@waikato.ac.nz for assistance.
For assistance, reach out to the Open Research Team at library@waikato.ac.nz.